Saturday, February 25, 2017

Wedding quilt next phase

Have sewn up 25 blocks, need 64 so will keep on going.  I need to organize the strips I have, they are currently strewn all over the sewing room.  Piles on sewing center, piles on cutting table and last but not least piles on the floor.Will organize what I have by color and size and see what sizes I need to cut so I can start chain piecing once again.  That method goes much faster than one block at a time.  Once I've got the organizing done they will sew up quickly.  Nice to have a project I'm having fun with and means so much to me.  Not going to post photos of my messy sewing room.

Thursday, February 23, 2017

1st wedding quilt log cabin block

These blocks started out very slow but have rearranged my strip piles to chain piece and it is going a little quicker and have used up most of the cut strips I had.  I'm going to use up the longer ones by cutting them to the needed length.  I'm not using the long ones, decided I didn't like the 12.5" block, just too busy so my blocks will be 9.5" instead.  Need more of them but they don't look quite so busy. IMHO  I know when I start to assemble them into a top I'll wish I had made bigger blocks.  Some of my center blocks ended up on opposite sides, hope that doesn't stand out too much because I'm not going to redo them.  I want to do the rows and furoughs layout so that design element shouldn't stand out.  All in all I think it's going to be lovely quilt in the blues and yellows.

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Starting the log cabin wq

Going to try and be more faithful with my postings.  I will be posting the progress of my newest project.  A log cabin quilt using my Go Cutter log cabin die.  I have a lot of strips already cut will do a few more today and then start putting some blocks together.  I've number labeled the strips on the Go and then put them in numbered labeled piles.  Trying to keep them organized as I add strips to the block in sequence.